TokyoPack 2024 – growing interest towards fibre-based alternatives in packaging
TokyoPack is the world´s leading comprehensive packaging exhibition, showcasing the latest advancements in Japanese packaging technology and science. The exhibition covers all aspects of packaging, from materials and machinery to design and sustainability. Plastics are still dominating, but there is growing demand for fiber-based materials in packaging.
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Ecohelix products enhancing sustainability and circularity
Ecohelix is responding to the need for more sustainable materials by providing wood-based biopolymers. Need to replace fossil-based materials in packaging, paper&board production and construction is eminent. Sustainable and high performing solutions are urgently needed.
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Ecohelix Nature Driven Technology
We have created a groundbreaking, nature driven technology to make everyday life more sustainable. In the video we describe, how our technology works. How we derive valuable, high performing and sustainable material from currently under or even non-utilized pulp industry side stream. Taking hard to harness hemicellulose and lignin from the the process, utilizing membrane filtration and enzymatic reaction to create WOODMER® biopolymers.
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Contributing to sustainable development
Our mission is to make your everyday life more sustainable. We work in the field of circularity and promote optimal usage of resources. We are partnering with the nature and committed to broader sustainable development in everything we do. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of United Nations provide a great framework to think and act sustainably. See, what are our commitments and actions!
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wood-based materials
Ecohelix is a biotechnology company, operating in the field of sustainable materials. Our unique technology utilizes the natural process of wood formation, harnessing the enzymatic process to create high performing polymers called WOODMER®. Ecohelix technology provides alternatives to plastics and other harmful materials.
Sustainable, emission reducing products to be used in everyday life.
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Ecohelix products enhancing sustainability and circularity
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Ecohelix is responding to the need for more sustainable materials by providing wood-based biopolymers. Need to replace fossil-based materials in packaging, paper&board production and construction is eminent. Sustainable and high performing solutions are urgently needed.
Ecohelix has received Environmental Permit for scale-up of the demo production
28.11.2023
Ecohelix has received an environmental permit to expand the production in the current demo plant from 20 ton per year to 500 ton. Plant is located in Örnsköldsvik´s industrial area, alongside Domsjö Fabriker´s pulp mill. Environmental permit process includes the evaluation of environmental impacts of the plant to the nearby surroundings and people.
25%
The amount of hemicellulose in wood. Now unused. In active use by Ecohelix innovation.
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SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
WOODMER BIOPOLYMERS
Our mission is to make everyday life more sustainable. Ecohelix introduces a unique and patented technology refining hemicellulose from currently untapped pulping industry side streams into high performing WOODMER® biopolymer components.
With the help of the new technology, we can provide green, sustainable alternatives to plastics and to other conventional oil and food-based polymers. The positive impact is remarkable.
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From purpose to technology
DRIVEN BY NATURE
Ecohelix is a sustainable materials company. It is also a technology company. It means we think and operate like engineers, and we possess our background in science. As we deal with nature, we also consider ourselves as sustainability driven individuals.
Ecohelix is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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SOLUTIONS AND PRODUCTS
Our solution results high level of performance with low emissions. Enhancing circularity and utilizing biotechnology, a forestry side stream is used as a raw material for the production in an elegant integrated biomimicking process. It works in two ways. Firstly, through our unique process Ecohelix provides high performing WOODMER® biopolymer products to be utilized in multiple identified applications that can be used in paper and packaging, homecare, textiles, and other applications.
Secondly, we provide a way to make pulping processes more effective by utilizing the previously unused side streams and thus improving the pulping process.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANY
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fit in. Ecohelix is a biotech company, and we grow fast. Join us to revolutionize the production of bio-based materials and make a difference turning world greener. To do so, we work as a team where empowerment, respect, reliability, integrity,
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OUR PARTNERS
KEMIRA
A world leading global chemicals company with safe, sustainable chemical solutions for water intensive industries. One of the main focusses of Kemira is on pulp & paper.
DOMSJÖ FABRIKER
Domsjö Fabriker AB is dissolving pulp mill in Sweden owned by the Aditya Birla group. The Domsjö mill refines wood into cellulose, bioethanol, and lignin via a dissolving pulp process.
NOVOZYMES
Novozymes is the world leader in biological solutions. For more than 70 years the company has solved biological problems and has uniquely dedicated to enzymes and microbes.
INVESTING IN FUTURE
The majority of the products we use every day have oil-based or food-based polymer components. This creates greenhouse gas emissions, which boost the global warming. Now, there are alternatives to plastics and a way to replace harmful oil and food-based materials with bio-based WOODMER® polymers. Sustainably.
This can be done by mimicking the nature´s own processes. Ecohelix has created a technology that revolutionizes the utilization of wood based polymers – now in demo scale.
Full scale production of WOODMER® biopolymers is envisioned to start in 2027.
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Patented technology,
granted in all relevant global markets
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TokyoPack 2024 – growing interest towards fiber-based alternatives in packaging
TokyoPack is the world´s leading comprehensive packaging exhibition, showcasing the latest advancements in Japanese packaging technology and science. The exhibition covers all aspects of packaging, from materials and machinery to design and sustainability. Plastics are still dominating, but there is growing demand for fiber-based materials in packaging. This year´s event took place at Tokyo Big … Read more
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Ecohelix products enhancing sustainability and circularity
Ecohelix is responding to the need for more sustainable materials by providing wood-based biopolymers. Need to replace fossil-based materials in packaging, paper&board production and construction is eminent. Sustainable and high performing solutions are urgently needed. Ecohelix´s WOODMER® wood-based biopolymers provide solutions to these needs. Our ground-breaking technology and WOODMER®’s unique characteristics respond to validated market … Read more
Bringing different viewpoints together
Introducing Ella Lundström, Ecohelix Project Manager Meet Ella Lundström, Project Manager at Ecohelix, who joined our team last September. Ella is a proactive individual with a passion for getting things done and achieving tangible results. She excels in asking insightful questions to bring clarity and understanding to the table. She drives sustainable development through stakeholder … Read more
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Ecohelix AB is an independent biotechnology company, established in 2014 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, where we run our R&D efforts. Biotechnology, material chemistry and process technology are the cornerstones of the R&D strategy, enabling the company to build production of high performing and sustainable products, thus bringing them to the market.
The company is financed by private equity as well as national and EU grants. Our VEHICLE project has received funding from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 837866.
Ecohelix has spent years in the laboratory developing this unique technology. The process has been verified in relevant industrial conditions (TRL 7). Ecohelix has cooperated and established a demo scale plant for production of the hemicellulose-lignin copolymers developed and patented by Ecohelix and supported by Domsjö Fabriker. The technology has proven to be highly efficient and we are now ready to establish industrial setup to produce sustainable biopolymers in a large-scale.
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98%
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION AVOIDANCE COMPARED TO COMPETITION
10 000 t/a
LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION CAPACITY
10
YEARS OF RESEARCH
NORDIC EXCELLENCE IN
WOOD-BASED MATERIALS
“Join us in the journey to make our every day life more sustainable. There is still time to change the direction”
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